Raising Food, Connecting Cultures

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:54:31 -0400

The Seattle Community Farm is run by Lettuce Link, which is a program of Solid Ground. This month’s Solid Ground newsletter, Groundviews, features an article about the Seattle Community Farm. Click on the link below to read the story on Solid Ground’s blog.

On a cool, drizzly June day, Sudi convinced his 7-year-old brother to join him at a work party at the new farm nestled within their housing complex. They helped move the last load of dirt into neat rows, soon to be planted. Scott Behmer, Seattle Community Farm Coordinator, says that when he started in the fall of 2010, the Farm was little more than “a grass field and a parking lot” near Rainier Vista (a mixed-income housing community just off MLK Way in South Seattle). Today, after two+ years of planning, community meetings and “a lot of physical work moving in 200 cubic yards of soil and tens of thousands of pounds of other materials,” the 1/3-acre Farm is fully planted and celebrated its official Grand Opening on June 25.
Seattle Community Farm is the newest project of Solid Ground’s Lettuce Link program, which works with and in communities to grow and share fresh, nourishing food, and envisions a city where people have equal access to healthy and culturally appropriate food. Scott says, “Our goal is to get vegetables to folks who struggle to afford them.” …

Read more on Solid Ground’s blog

Seattle Community Farm at Rainier Vista

Raising Food, Connecting Cultures